CVE-2026-22747

medium VMware
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 94% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Published: April 22, 2026 (22 days ago)
Last Modified: April 24, 2026
Vendor: VMware
Source: NVD

Description

Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. SubjectX500PrincipalExtractor does not correctly handle certain malformed X.509 certificate CN values, which can lead to reading the wrong value for the username. In a carefully crafted certificate, this can lead to an attacker impersonating another user. This issue affects Spring Security: from 7.0.0 through 7.0.4.

CWE

CWE-297

Affected Products

vmware spring security

References

🔗 spring.io